Civil Servants?
Sandeep Kaku was over last night! It was really cool seeing him again. He always has such interesting stories to tell… He was in Bangalore, playing for a concert with Ustad Amjad Ali Khan and his sons! I would have SO loved to have gone, but we didn’t make it. Anyway, while we were talking at night, Kaku was talking about CM Dharam Singh being at the concert. And his story really got me thinking…
Not only was Mr. Dharam Singh royally late to the concert, but soon after he arrived, Amjad Ali Khan ji received little chits of paper saying that His Royal Highness needed to go, and that they should wrap up the concert. WHY exactly? Because the CM needed to felicitate the artists before he could go home. I don't know about them, but I would rather not have such a felicitation!
Apparently, this kind of thing happens all the time! With these government official types coming late for a concert and publicly getting up and walking off in the middle – as if it were completely acceptable to come and go as one pleased! One established musician actually stopped his concert to ask the person in question why she bothered to come if she had no intention of listening to begin with!
It seems to ANNOYING to see disrespect of this level from people who are supposed to be working to make our city a BETTER place to be in!
The other day, mom and I were in a bit of a rush to reach a store before it closed. We turned the corner of our street, near the Police Commissioner’s office to see four traffic policemen stopping the traffic for about 10 minutes, so that ONE ambassador could have a clear path through the road! My mom summed it up in one line. “They seem to re-define the term civil ‘servant’!”
Not only was Mr. Dharam Singh royally late to the concert, but soon after he arrived, Amjad Ali Khan ji received little chits of paper saying that His Royal Highness needed to go, and that they should wrap up the concert. WHY exactly? Because the CM needed to felicitate the artists before he could go home. I don't know about them, but I would rather not have such a felicitation!
Apparently, this kind of thing happens all the time! With these government official types coming late for a concert and publicly getting up and walking off in the middle – as if it were completely acceptable to come and go as one pleased! One established musician actually stopped his concert to ask the person in question why she bothered to come if she had no intention of listening to begin with!
It seems to ANNOYING to see disrespect of this level from people who are supposed to be working to make our city a BETTER place to be in!
The other day, mom and I were in a bit of a rush to reach a store before it closed. We turned the corner of our street, near the Police Commissioner’s office to see four traffic policemen stopping the traffic for about 10 minutes, so that ONE ambassador could have a clear path through the road! My mom summed it up in one line. “They seem to re-define the term civil ‘servant’!”
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1 Comments:
At 8:24 am, January 02, 2006,
Ranjana said…
Yea that does happen all the while and its so damn irritating. All these babu types, they come to concerts with these benevolent benefactor auras abt them, like the whole thing goes on thnx to their exalted patronage.
Lets just not bother abt there ppl, ignore them as far as possible and see what hpns. They wouldn't hv dared to do the same with a person who had a wider fan base, like a Bollywood actor. So much like Admiration Misdirected, isn't it????
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